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Result of count: 507 Boxelder, 41 Cherry, 12 Rock Pine, and 0 Birch, 
or 82 per cent. It was found that the cultivation necessary in the first 
year after setting in such close plantings is quite as expensive as when 
the trees are set 3 by 3 feet, since hand labor is necessary, whereas in the 
wider spacing all the work can be done by horse cultivator. The extra 
expense of setting and the value of the material fully offset the advan- 
tage gained by saving in cultivation after the first year, so that such 
close planting would not seem advisable. 
The total of trees standing in the one-sixteenth-acre plats, as reported 
June 30, 1897 (the blanks in these plats having been sown with the 
seed of Oaks, Walnuts, and Hickories), is as follows: 2,738 Artemisia, 
2,620 Boxelder, 231 Black Cherry, 138 Bur Gak, 15 Black Walnut, 143 
Douglas Spruce, 428 Jack Pine, 67 Rock Pine, 388 White Spruce, and 
210 Scotch Pine; total 6,978, or at the rate of 5,582 trees per acre. 
On October 1, 1897, the one-sixteenth-acre plats contained a total of 
2,347 Artemisia, 2,607 Boxelders, 235 Black Cherry, 150 Oak and Wal- 
nut, 307 Douglas Spruce, 241 White Spruce, 42 Austrian Pine, 342 
Jack Pine, 156 Scotch Pine, 154 Rock Pine, 4 Birch, or 6,585 trees. 
Two one-half-acre plats were set at this station in 1896, in neither of 
which a good stand was secured, owing to hot south winds during and 
immediately following the planting season. 
PLAT 33.—One-half acre, 4 by 4 feet, 1,361 trees. 
Gear Ac yy ACP. 
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Jel SORBET Ln oe Se ee ee a i 681 
"Ba ines Terai. eee Se ek eee ee ee ee ee ee ee 340 
Davee TE ee a eg ere 170 
SSacuaih TEfim@ sic. Jo Se ee en eee 170 
(Bur Oak was substituted for one-half the Rock Pines.) 
This plat is designed to illustrate the relative light requirement of 
the three Pines, the Boxelder to stand only until the Pines are estab- 
lished. The very unfavorable weather at planting time and immedi. 
ately following resulted in a very poor stand. 
